Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25288
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Comments before the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Broadcast Localism, RM-10803. 2 pages., Author urged the Commission to seek ways to help maintain and encourage more localized agricultural programming on radio and television stations throughout the nation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20222
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Posted on: <a href="http://www.ruralreality.org/ruralreality/pitts_statement.html">www.ruralreality.org</a>, Comments at a press conference, Willow Street, Pennsylvania
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23814
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Via Poynteronline. 3 pages, Author argues that "journalism on a smaller scale provides a bigger opportunity to connect with (and answer to) readers and viewers." Cites an experience in which a reporter at a small daily newspaper on the coast of rural North Carolina told her readers that the water was polluted with cancer-causing chemicals and that city leaders had known about the pollutants for many years without doing anything. She received a Pulitzer Gold Medal for Meritorious Public Service, but a hostile reception, locally, by people upset by the uproar she had caused in the community.
Fleury, Jean-Marc (author / Executive Director, World Conference of Science Journalists in Canada)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2004-06-10
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23745
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Via BBC World Service Trust.Org. 2 pages., "Development journalism is an oxymoron. Developing countries need good journalism and good journalists, period."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29643
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3 pages., "In the place of our journalism becoming development journalism in the sense defined above, it has become 'envelope' journalism based on envelopes with press releases reaching newspaper offices."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23810
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"Tuesday Edition" via Poynteronline. 2 pages., Identifies sources of information and perspectives about farmer deaths by suicide. Cites the National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, Wisconsin.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23852
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From The Financial Times via Rand Corporation. 3 pages., Author comments on different perspectives of Europeans and Americans regarding food, eating and other cultural factors, as related to acceptability of genetically modified foods.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23815
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"Monday Edition" via Poynteronline. 2 pages, Provides source of information for identifying contributions by members of the meat industry to U.S. legislators who influence agricultural policies. Also describes coverage by the St. Petersburg Times about livestock auctions being hurt by the mad cow scare.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21941
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Meatingplace.com. Cited in Fsnet, Food Safety Network. 2 pages., Includes discussion of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman's style of media relations and risk communicating, especially in connection with the "mad cow" matters during her tenure.
" Who can lament the passing of perpetual risk and fear, anyway? But probably we have lost something profound if corporate culture, like corporate farming, has eroded our lively old democratic pleasure in storytelling."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22272
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Science and Development Network. 3 pages., Author says "It is time to reinstate a common ground in which a free and renewed debate can take place - one in which stakeholders mindful of independence and tolerance will start to weigh facts, interpretations and arguments based on their own intrinsic value, not on their origin."
